Transformation by Fire - The Archaeology of Cremation in Cultural Context

Informationen zum Autor Ian Kuijt is a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. His interests include mortuary analysis, the forager-farmer transition, the ancient Near East, and Irish historical archaeology. Colin P. Quinn is an anthropological archaeologist, who works at the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. His research interests include a global perspective on increasing social complexity and material culture use; his current research focuses on monitoring long-term dynamics in the interaction of mortuary practices, settlement patterns, and metal procurement in Bronze Age Transylvania. Gabriel Cooney is the professor of Celtic archaeology in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests focus on Ireland in the wider European context and include early farming societies, particularly prehistoric use of stone and mortuary practices. Klappentext Examines cremation by documenting the material signatures of cremation events and processes, as well as its transformative impact on social relations and concepts of the body.Examines cremation by documenting the material signatures of cremation events and processes, as well as its transformative impact on social relations and concepts of the body.

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• Authors: Gabriel Cooney, Ian (EDT)/ Quinn Kuijt
• Assisted by: Gabriel Cooney (Editor), Ian Kuijt (Editor), Colin P Quinn (Editor), Colin P. Quinn (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2014
• EAN: 9780816531141
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3114-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Amerind Studies in Anthropolog; Amerind Studies in Anthropology; Amerind Studies in Anthropology; Amerind Studies in Archaeology; Amerind Studies in Anthropolog
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology